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Status update 2020-12-15 |
Posted by: a-wai - 12-15-2020, 10:52 AM - Forum: Mobian on PinePhone
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Hello,
Mid-December is there, and it comes with a number of features and improvements 
We've been indeed quite busy during the past month: - We finally created an on-device installer image, based on the awesome work from our friends at pmOS! This allows you to set the password of your choice instead of the default "1234" and, more importantly, it can be used to enable full disk encryption, which is a feature lots of people have been waiting for
- Several patches from megi's kernel were backported to our kernel, including:
- Display refresh rate fixes (60Hz inside)
- I2C frequency increase (improves the touchscreen response time)
- New driver for the WiFi adapter, bringing more stable connections and improved power management
- We introduced a few days ago the 'eg25-manager' package, which is a userspace implementation of megi's power management driver with a few added benefits
The latter deserves some explanation, so here it is: while megi's driver is an interesting, I believe it doesn't belong to the kernel space, for various reasons:- First of all, it is highly unlikely it will ever be upstreamed
- It's a convenience driver, which doesn't require any specific kernel-space features or privileges
- In addition to handling the modem's GPIOs, it also uses its serial port to send hardcoded AT commands; this limits it to a very device-specific use case, and doesn't allow for easy configuration without recompiling the kernel
As I'd prefer removing downstream patches from our kernel over adding some more, I went for a full re-implementation of this driver in userspace. While giving eg25-manager the same capabilities (management of modem GPIOs for power-on/off and suspend/resume sequences, power state monitoring for faster shutdown, initial configuration using AT commands) as megi's driver, it brings in some additional benefits:
First, eg25-manager monitors ModemManager, so it can stay aware of the modem state (acquired by MM, SIM unlocked or not, registered, data connected...). This allows us, for instance, to release the URC (call or SMS notification) cache only once the modem has been acquired by ModemManager after resuming from sleep. It is also possible, that way, to quickly (< 10s) detect that ModemManager fails to bring the modem back online in a reasonable time, and therefore recover the modem from a broken resume state. You'll probably still miss a few calls, but shouldn't have to reboot your phone anymore after a bad suspend/resume cycle (based on the 'mguard' script by @as400).
The PineTab obviously benefits from the kernel upgrade as well, and it even has its own installer image, in case you want full disk encryption on this device too!
Today's images are our new reference releases for both the PinePhone and PineTab.
Enjoy
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unable to boot from SDCard |
Posted by: Charles Tarkowski - 12-15-2020, 09:44 AM - Forum: General Discussion on ROCKPRO64
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have installed eMMC 32 GB and tried with Debian, all OK, start, SSH via Putty, nand-sata-install, boot without SDCard, all fine.
then i understand, that it is 64-Bit and wine32 do not function in this enviroment, what i need, without this = dead Piece of Hardware for me.
So finding Ubuntu-Version (Bionic with 32 Bit) github.com_bionic-minimal-rockpro64-0.8.3-1141-armhf.img, tried it and
Hurra, it works, with wine32, x2go, xfce, all I want...(alll on SDCard)
Now beeing unfearful, and try to transfer, or make it new with the eMMC, put the image on /tmp and use
dd Cmd, and now all is gone,
i think i had to delete the Debian-System on eMMC, i do not do it,
Now i try to start without eMMC, and some trial of SDCards, with Jumper (north of the intern button)
all combinations, but no more boot is possible,
the LED's at Network-cable are out,
i do not understand the Connection via TTY and serial Connector, i do not have USB Hardware for this,
some other older PC with seriell Connector is perhaps avaiible.
Pleas help me, any suggestions are welcome..
Charles
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Low Battery indication (Manjaro/PostmarketOS with phosh) |
Posted by: MamlinAV - 12-15-2020, 04:12 AM - Forum: PinePhone Software
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Greetings!
Can you please tell me if it is possible to configure the low battery indication (LED and/or sound)?
For example, when the battery charge is less than 10%, blink the LED and/or beep. In theory, this should work even in deep sleep mode.
Maybe I missed something, but did not find such settings in Manjaro and PostmarketOS (phosh).
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Rotate Console Screens |
Posted by: wd5gnr - 12-14-2020, 11:06 PM - Forum: PineTab Software
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If you use the tab with a keyboard, it is annoying that the consoles (Alt+Fn) are in portrait mode. Easy fix.
1) Edit /boot/boot.txt
2) On the setenv bootargs line, add fbcon=rotate:1
3) Save
4) Run /boot/mkscr
5) Reboot
Doesn't help with KDE/Plasma rotation problem though
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Manjaro Issues: Dark Screen & Font size |
Posted by: Sally2 - 12-14-2020, 09:51 PM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook Pro
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Hi,
I download Manjaro KDE Plasma 20.10 last week. I have two issues I don't have a clue to solve.
!. Pinebook Pro, screen is dark
2. Font size is to small to read or see... increased the font sizes but website size don't change.
Thank you for any assistance you can give me.
My regards, Let me clarify what I mean by a dark screen.
My computer came with Ubuntu, lighting was not an issue. I download Manjaro KDE Plasma on an extra 64gb eMMC card. The set up of Manjaro went fine. The screen was dark after it booted up and I attempt to use the keys F1 and F2 to brighten up the screen, no luck.
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